Working memory for tonal and atonal sequences during a forward and a backward recognition task

Music Perception

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 255-267

  Schulze, Katrin ^a,b   Jay Dowling, W ^c   Tillmann, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Expertise; Musical Structure; Musicians; Nonmusicians; Working Memory for Auditory Material

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856857667     PISSN: 07307829     EISSN: 15338312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/mp.2012.29.3.255     Document Type: Article

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